Court reports detail police probe of Dennis bank job

DENNIS — The note read: "Put $5000 in bag all 10 & 50 dollor bills no dye packs no small bills and no cops and no one gets hurt."

It was passed to a teller at a Citizens Bank on Route 134 in South Dennis at 9:38 a.m. Feb. 13, according to a police report on file in Orleans District Court.

The robber walked away with $4,000, a bank audit showed. The robbery took no more than three minutes, according to the report. The teller saw the robber jump a split-rail fence onto the Cape Cod Rail Trail nearby.

Using surveillance videos, interviews, a property search and a sighting by a Wellfleet police officer, Dennis police arrested two people they believe are behind the robbery.

The two pleaded not guilty to one count each of unarmed robbery at their arraignments Tuesday in the Orleans court.

Kelley is being held on $10,000 bail at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility. Moriarty was held on $1,000 bail, but Dennis police Capt. William Monahan said he believed she posted it Monday night.

They are scheduled to return to court for a pretrial hearing March 18.

The robber was wearing black sweatpants, a hooded black sweatshirt, a black ski mask, black glasses with a red rim and gloves, according to a statement from a teller included in the police report. She described him as between 5 feet, 7 inches and 5 feet, 8 inches tall and in his early 20s, according to the report.

This description matched a man who appears in bank surveillance footage prior to the robbery, according to the report. Police then obtained security footage from Barb's Bike Shop, located across the street from the bank, which tied a vehicle to the robbery.

A black Mazda sedan is seen circling the parking lot there and parking in the corner. A person matching the robber's description ran from the rail trail to the vehicle and got in the passenger side at about 9:40 a.m., the report says.

According to the police report, Moriarty owns a black Mazda sedan.

Kelley was taken into custody later that day by Yarmouth police in a car matching that description. He was released after being questioned by Dennis police.

Kelley told police he and Moriarty pulled up to a Bank of America on Route 134 the morning of the robbery and argued about paying bills but never got out of the car, the report says.

When shown a photo of the car behind Barb's Bike Shop, Kelley said, "There got to be a million Mazdas," according to the report.

When police went to talk to Moriarty regarding Kelley, she "immediately stated she wanted to speak to her attorney," the report says.

Police executed a search warrant that night at the apartment Kelley and Moriarty share. According to the report, police found a Champion brand sweatshirt matching the one worn by the subject in the videos.

The next day, a Wellfleet police sergeant who lives in South Dennis reported seeing a black Mazda drive slowly through his neighborhood about a half-mile from the bank between 9:15 and 9:30 the morning of the robbery, according to the report.

Sgt. Michael Turner said a female was driving and a male was in the passenger seat, and they were between 20 and 30 years old.